Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-1978

Title: Gimp RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-1978.

CWE Category CWE-787

Published Date Dec 12, 2013

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.44%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-1978: Heap-based buffer overflow in the read_xwd_cols function in file-xwd.c in the X Window Dump (XWD) plug-in in GIMP 2.6.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an X Window System (XWD) image dump with more colors than color map entries.

Impacted Vendors

gimp 1

gnu 1

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1778.html http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2813 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64098 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2051-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953902 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-01 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1778.html http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2813 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64098 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2051-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953902 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-01

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-1978 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 12, 2013 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.